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How Social Comparisons Cloud Our Thinking

How good are you at your job? How successful are you in your personal life? To answer those questions, being human, you look at others to evaluate yourself. It is a natural and obvious choice to compare yourself to your peers, friends and colleagues, but it is a choice that can seriously impact your ability to make a smart decision and that could really derail your plans.

So how do break away from this habit of making social comparisons? In the video below, Gino says we need to constantly ask ourselves questions about the information that we are using when we make decisions.